Monthly Archives: March 2010

Friday Fiction: Pulling Through

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Alaska

If you haven’t read James Wesley, Rawles’ novel Patriots, you really should. It’s more of an extended treatise than a novel, though, with lengthy discourses on various equipment, techniques, and ideas for securing you and yours post-SHTF. However, I actually … Continue reading →

Posted in By Ourselves, For Ourselves, Friday Fiction | 5 Comments

Census

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Scott

When I got home from work this evening, the brochure below was on my front porch. $17.50/hour!!! Are you kidding me? To do what exactly? I am sure that Acorn the Census Bureau could find plenty of people sitting on … Continue reading →

Posted in Order of the imperial upraised middle finger. | 7 Comments

Ride the Lightning, Scumbag!

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

Courtesy of Marko, we learn of this lovely gent, who, at the time of writing this, should be discussing his significant failings as a decent & intelligent human being with whatever higher power he subscribes to, by way of fatal … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

More Daily Geek – PEW! PEW! FEL!?

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

Boeing completes preliminary design work on a Free Electron Laser for the Navy.  I remember when lasers a bare fraction of this kind of power took whole buildings to house.  Gotta love technology.

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Silly Seed Buyers

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Alaska

BillH of FreeinIdaho blog has some important thoughts about how survival seeds are a waste of money for most folks. The seeds are just fine, mind you; it’s the fact that most folks are clueless about farming that’s the problem. … Continue reading →

Posted in By Ourselves, For Ourselves | 7 Comments

March Madness

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Scott

From ESPN: U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pushed a proposal Wednesday to bar men’s college basketball teams from postseason play if they fail to graduate 40 percent of their players, an idea that didn’t go over well with the … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia and Other Nonsense | 7 Comments

Your Daily Geek – Flying Sea Monster Edition

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Oscar Gordon

The Caspian Sea Monster in Drydock, a Russian Wing-in Ground Effect vehicle.  Gotta love those Russians, they sure did like to build ’em big and ugly and tough as bricks.

Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment

What timing!

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Want an example to show your friends who may be sitting on the fence about the government take over of health care insurance? Here you go! Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won’t take any new Medicaid patients, … Continue reading →

Posted in Order of the imperial upraised middle finger. | Leave a comment

Bubbles to the North

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Phil Kadath

You’d think that with the crap going on down here the Canucks would learn a thing or two. Nope.

Posted in Dare To Be Stupid | Leave a comment

Cherry-Picking

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Phil Kadath

I’m sure that is what the teacher’s unions will call this. Chicago’s Urban Prep Charter Academy has a mission — for its students to graduate and succeed in college. Now, for the first graduating class at the high school, it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia and Other Nonsense | Leave a comment